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Bulgarians (Bulgarian: българи, romanized: bŭlgari, IPA: [ˈbɤɫɡɐri]) are a nation and South Slavic [57] [58] [59] ethnic group native to Bulgaria and its neighbouring region, who share a common Bulgarian ancestry, culture, history and language.
From 1946 to 1991 the country was known as the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) and was ruled by the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). The BCP transformed itself in 1990, changing its name to "Bulgarian Socialist Party". Communist leader Georgi Dimitrov had been in exile, mostly in the Soviet Union, since 1923. Although Stalin executed many ...
Very little is known about the religion of the Bulgars, [146] [147] but it is believed to have been monotheistic. In Danube Bulgaria, Bulgar monarchs described themselves as a "ruler from God", [123] [148] [149] indicating authority from a singular divine origin, [150] and making appeals to the deity's omniscience. [151]
Great Bulgaria was formed after the unification of the tribes of Kutrigurs, Utigurs, and Onogurs (Onodonduri). 635: A peace treaty was signed by Kubrat with the Byzantine Empire. 668: Khazar's pressure caused Great Bulgaria to decline. Volga Bulgaria (7th century–1240s) is formed. 680/681: First Bulgarian Empire (Danubian Bulgaria) was formed ...
It was subsequently joined to Yugoslavia. After the Bosnian War, the state received international independence for the first time. Bulgaria: The Bulgars settled the Balkans permanently after 680. They invaded from northeast from the territories of Old Great Bulgaria and created the First Bulgarian Empire uniting with the numerous local Slavs.
Battle between the Slavs and the Scythians — painting by Viktor Vasnetsov (1881). The early Slavs were speakers of Indo-European dialects [1] who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th centuries AD) in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the Early ...
A recent Bulgarian study on the heritage of Thracian mounds in Bulgaria claims historical, cultural and ethnic links between Thracians and Bulgarians. [ 106 ] [ 105 ] Genetic studies on modern Bulgarians show that approximately 55% of Bulgarian autosomal genetic legacy is of Paleo-Balkan and Mediterranean origin which can be attributed to ...
In Southern Slavs, the folkloric view that the first people grew out of the earth like mushrooms has been preserved. The largest number of attestations, at least 13, come from northwestern Bulgaria, written down between 1988 and 1999, and one from Macedonia. [4] An excerpt from an ethnographic record made in the village of Leskovets in 1989: